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Demo of FONTastic and FONTastic Plus
I just posted a video today demoing FONTastic and FONTastic Plus, two versions of the bitmap font editor for the Mac made between 1985 and 1988 by Altsys, better known for creating Fontographer and F…4 -
Re: Type Design Like It’s 1987
@"Ray Larabie" The Atari had a really clever way to change the current character set. There was a set in ROM, of course, but there was a memory location where you could put the address of a…1 -
Re: Type Design Like It’s 1987
I did a little bit of font editing on Atari home computers (the 8-bit line, pre-ST) before I had a Mac. Custom fonts were of limited use on those early systems. You could use them in your own program…1 -
Re: With more appearances of "AI" in text, I wonder about /I with crossbars
Never should have dropped the periods.5 -
Re: How do you make a living as an independent type designer?
I also use my own name for my business, primarily so that people identify my work with a human being, not some faceless company. I'm also always careful to write on my site in the first person (e.g.,…7
